Setting the Purpose for Reading Fictional Texts

The Research




What can you do?





-When selecting a text for your students ask yourself: What do I want my students to get out of reading this? Are they reading this for pleasure, vocbaulary, theme, plot, etc.

- Example:




Poetry (Here link a document with the strategy for poetry nicely formatted so the participants can use it in their classrooms next day)









Strategies for setting the purpose
When teachers set the purpose:
The Tea Party (Link a description of what it is)
Example lesson
Multiple readings(Link a description of what it is)
Example lesson
Think like a character(Link a description of what it is)
Example lesson

Anticipation Reaction guide(Link a description of what it is)
Example lesson


When students set the purpose:



Resources:
Classroom strategies for K-3


For upper grades

How set the purpose


Book trailers site